Word: racketeering
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...skating rink in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.--and proudly displays a postage-stamp-size bit of translucent gray film that looks like debris from a darkroom floor. It is the heart of a new machine that he says will revolutionize the global financial system, bring the multibillion identity-theft racket to a halt and make teenagers behave in cars...
MICHAEL SAVAGE, conservative talk-show radio host, calling the disorder a "fraud" and a "racket...
...What most customers don’t realize is the text messaging industry is a cash cow for cell operators, and few understand how cheap text messages should rightfully be. It would not be an exaggeration to call text messages the biggest racket in telecom history...
...Though it handily carried the doubles point by winning two out of three matches, the Crimson was clearly still adjusting in the opening sets of its singles matches, as was evident from the results of those sets: only one firm win—off the red hot racket of No. 2 senior Ashwin Kumar—and another win, by No. 5 freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, that required a heroic comeback in the tiebreaker.Down 2-5 in the tiebreaker, Omodele-Lucien changed his strategy.“I just decided to focus on hitting out,” said Omodele...
...with a down-the line laser followed by an ace, he lost it (6-4) on his opponent’s next service game.At first it didn’t look like Nguyen would even reach the third set. Strong serves off his opponent’s racket combined with an inconsistent start on Nguyen’s part to land him a 6-0 loss in the first set.“The team’s been on my case the last few matches for holding back, for not playing my gamestyle, for not playing aggressively...